Car crashes into Walsall travel agents

Police were called to Travelogue in Weston Street, Caldmore, just after 8am after a Peugeot careered into the shop front.

Just half an hour earlier, officers were called to the junction of Harden Road in Bloxwich where a car had gone through a garden wall and turned on its side. A woman had to be cut free from the wreckage of the vehicle by firefighters.

Travel agent owner Tony Singh said he thought the end of the world had come early as he sat down behind his desk just as the car came though his shop window.

Rubble and glass is now strewn across the Travelogue shop, which has been running for over a year.

But Mr Singh, aged 34, said he will be remaining open today at what is one of his busiest times of the year.

"I had literally just opened the shutters and then came inside, sat down behind my desk and then, within seconds, the vehicle smashed into the window," he said.

"It sounded like a bomb had gone off or something.

"But the show must go on. I've got a lot of customers coming in today so I hope they will bear with me and excuse the mess."

Mr Singh said he is campaigning for bollards to be put outside the shop, which stands on a busy corner.

Police were called to the scene at around 8.02 am. An ambulance was not needed because nobody had been injured.

Meanwhile, a VW Polo careered off Harden Road, at the junction with Chestnut Road, and clipped Margaret Perry's garden wall and part of a neighbour's.

A woman had to be cut free from the car, which had turned on to its side, but she is not thought to have been seriously injured.

Grandmother-of-five Mrs Perry, aged 75, who lives with her 78-year-old husband Ron, said: "I was reading the newspaper in the front room and heard a bang. I thought it was an earthquake, the house was shaking. They need traffic lights here."